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New five-year plan set to boost Leicester’s creative economy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/cultural-strategy
A five-year strategy that aims to create thousands of new jobs in Leicester’s creative economy and engage hundreds more adults in the city’s arts and cultural offer has been backed by the University of Leicester.
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Urgent action required to protect world’s coral reefs from disappearing within three decades, warn experts
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/coral-reefs
In 2018 the Vibrant Oceans group identified 50 reefs that are most likely to resist and survive climate change. The habitats are located largely in the Pacific and Indian oceans, with further reefs in the Caribbean and east of Africa.
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All rise! Height-adjustable desks can reduce workplace sitting by over an hour a day
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/standing-desk-research
Researchers have developed a programme that, when paired with a height-adjustable desk, can reduce the time people spend sitting by over an hour.
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Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2017/05/29/evelyn-waugh-reader-writer-collector/
An idiosyncratic reflection by Robert Murray Davis on a Waugh symposium held at the Huntington, Pasadena, over 5-6 May 2017.
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The Changing Leicester Collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2022/09/29/the-changing-leicester-collection/
A blog about cataloguing the Changing Leicester collection
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In the Land of the Blind the One-eyed Man is King
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2020/05/07/in-the-land-of-the-blind-the-one-eyed-man-is-king/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on May 7, 2020 This morning I watched a Youtube Video (hey, aren’t I down with the kids ), about a researcher advocating the view that communications about the Covid-19 pandemic are being manipulated to force people...
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Lis-Bibliometrics Conference 2024: Exploring The Bibliometric Universe
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/10/16/lis-bibliometrics-conference-2024-exploring-the-bibliometric-universe/
Posted by William Farrell in Library and Learning Services on October 16, 2024 Merinne Whitton, research metrics lead in the Research Services team, reports back from the recent Lis-Bibliometrics Conference.
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MA Museum Studies Placement Week 7-8
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/09/09/ma-museum-studies-placement-week-7-8/
Posted by can19 in Library Special Collections on September 9, 2022 My time now at the University of Leicester Archives and Special Collections has ended, and I am proud of what I have achieved.
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MA Museum Studies Placement Weeks 3-4
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/08/12/ma-museum-studies-placement-weeks-3-4/
Posted by can19 in Library Special Collections on August 12, 2022 Teddies in 3 Activity Sheet for Red Textbook 2 Cataloguing the Rose Griffiths Archive During week 3 I began to get deeper into the cataloguing process, and I also began to re-box all the material.
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CUH advisory board
https://le.ac.uk/urban-history/people/cuh-advisory-board
The Centre for Urban History has an Advisory Board, currently consisting of seven members drawn from within and outside academia, who act as a hub for all relevant academia.